Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.