Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.