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

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking