Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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…

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.