The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.