Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Compromise.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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to