The highest of distinctions is service to others.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't
hear the referee.

The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't
hear the referee.

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.
It's great for the first two weeks.

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.
It's great for the first two weeks.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs
to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs
to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure-which is: Try to read more

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure-which is: Try to please everybody.

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.