Be not simply good – be good for something.
Category: Inspirational
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We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others.
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life.
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course–with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here–to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.