Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

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

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

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

To teach isto learn twice.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.