We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.