Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.