Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.