Alphabet Quotes

Life is a succession of lessons,

which must be lived to be understood,

and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

There is no distinctly American criminal class

except Congress.

Give a girl the right shoes,

and she can conquer the world.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison

and expecting the other person to die.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones.

The months of November and May,

in particular,

are dangerous in this regard.

Creativity is the key to success in the future,

and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity

in children at that level.

You see,

God helps only people who work hard.

That principle is very clear.

I liked working with smart people.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;

the point is to discover them.

In the first place,

God made idiots.

That was for practice.

Then he made school boards.

Seek first to understand,

then to be understood.

You know,

let's put it this way,

if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery,

if they went on vacation,

there wouldn't be a person left in town.

I've always been attracted to

the more revolutionary changes.

Failures, repeated failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success

Reading, after a certain age,

diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

Any man who reads too much

and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Unless you choose to do great things with it,

it makes no difference how much you are rewarded,

or how much power you have.

Life is too short to take everything seriously.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot;

but make it hot by striking