Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.