Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.