Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.