A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.