Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was
promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was
promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And read more

The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,
if thou seest dust.

That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust,
if thou seest dust.