Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Step after step the ladder is ascended

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.