If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to