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.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well