A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is - that appeals to people.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Accursed be he that first invented war.
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey - flat or jumps - there's ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.