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Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. 
Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges. 
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. 
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. 
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. 
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day 
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. 
May your special day be filled with memories and flowers, friendship and happy hours. 
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. 
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 
The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe. 
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them 
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. 
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. 
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. 
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. 
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea 
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. 
Social Media is about the people! Not about your business. Provide for the people and the people will provide for you. 
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. 
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. 
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality 
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. 
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. 
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. 
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. 
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. 
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. 
The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines 
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. 
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. 
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. 
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. 
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. 
