Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.