A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

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.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.