Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence more than talents and accomplishments.
* Edwin Percy Whipple
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
* Martin Heidegger
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
* Johann Jacob Zimmermann
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
* John D. MacDonald
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
* Marlene Dietrich
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.
* Edwin Percy Whipple
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
* Shirley MacLaine
Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
* John Dewey
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
* Wernher von Braun
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
* Henry Fielding
