A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.