By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Genius is a long impatience.

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.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.