Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

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.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.