Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

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.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.