To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.