Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

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

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Discord gives a relish to concord.