Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its read more

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you read more

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.