Francis Bacon

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.”- Shayne Mcclendon

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Learn to say “I don’t know.” If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Think with your whole body.