Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race. read more

• Thought Do Let Us Speak Darker Days Rather Sterner These Dark Great Greatest Our Country Lived Thank God Been Allowed According Stations Play Part Making Memorable History Race

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. read more

• Thought Love Condition Which Happiness Another Person Essential Own

Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don"t stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream! read more

• Thought Take Broken Pieces Life Bake Master Cake Stand Still Like Lake Keep Flowing Stream

Pay attention to your body. Is this the only place where they should live. read more

• Thought Pay Attention Body Place They Live

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty. read more

• Thought Life Freedom Requires Beginning Resolution Its Work Pain Thus Difficulty

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country. read more

• Thought Patriots Talk Dying for Their Country Killing

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. read more

• Thought Preoccupation Possession More Anything Prevents Men from Living Freely Nobly

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. read more

• Thought Fear Main Source Superstition Sources Cruelty Conquer Beginning Wisdom

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. read more

• Thought Absolutely Certain Think Essential Things Rationality

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one"s work is terribly important. read more

• Thought Symptoms Approaching Nervous Breakdown Belief Work Terribly Important