To beprepared is half the victory.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.