Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used”
“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.”
“You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother”
When two people have the same crazy feeling of love, it can be the most wonderful thing in the world, a high of all high's.
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The man watched the workers as they painted the house across the road. He had lived and played in the street for most of his life and had always wanted to better himself out in the world beyond. A learned man, he looked far older than his 39 years, time had not been kind to him.
The painters first washed the walls and then brushed on the first coat which was thinned by mineral turps. The man thought the ladder looked crooked against the wall and worried that the men may fall.
He walked over to them and mentioned it, but they ignored him. So he returned to his own house and was not surprised when the ladder fell and the men landed heavily on the ground. He laughed and went inside.
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”