A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A room without books is a body without soul

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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,

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.