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

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

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

To teach isto learn twice.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

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.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.