The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

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

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.