Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Our distrust is very expensive.

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

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.