Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Everyone lives by selling something.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.