Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

To understand everything is to forgive everything.