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

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.