No strength within, no respect without.

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?'

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.