Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.