Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.