Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Renown and repose do not go together.