Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Example is better than following it.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.