Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.