You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.