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

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

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

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.