Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken