Theodore Roosevelt

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.