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Nothing lifts your spirits or fills your heart more than giving your support and time to a good cause.

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to candor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process...

There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp.

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason; knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

A life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been created in honor of a critic.

To live is not breathing, it is action.