The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

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

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'