Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.