Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Only the educated are free.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

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

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.