Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.