Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

A room without books is a body without soul

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.