Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.