If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

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

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.