Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.