Charles Dickens

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

O ’tis love, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round!

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.