Great Throughts Treasury

"It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth."

"It's more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it."

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

"Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be."

"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind."

"Never perish a good thought."

"One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks."

"Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same."

"Presence is more than just being there."

"People who never get carried away should be."

"The best vision is insight."

"Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will"

"Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did."

"The dumbest people I know are those who know it all."

"The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country."

"The more sympathy you give, the less you need."

"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"The richest person in the world - in fact, all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth, and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be."

"There are more fakers in business than in jail."

"The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do."

"To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness."

"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all."

"There's no way to move without making waves."

"Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it."

"What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much."

"Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be."

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat."

"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."

"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."