Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…