You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
The best things in life are silly.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Life is wasted on the living.
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.