Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.