A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They