We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

To beprepared is half the victory.

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

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

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.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

The present is never a happy state to any being