The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.