Carl Sandburg

“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”

“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”

“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”

“All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.”

“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”

“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.”