Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.