Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

The comforter's head never aches.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

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

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.