The World is but, a school of inquiry.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

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 cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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