Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.