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?'

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.