Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.