“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.”
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Variant: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Attributed on the internet but not found in print prior to an attribution in Aero Digest, Vols. 58–59, 1949, p. 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=q2ofAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Life+is+simple%22+but+we+insist+on+making+it+complicated&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Life+is+simple%22+
Misattributed, Not Chinese
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS.”
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Context: The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.
“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Worstward Ho (1983)
Variant: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Context: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
