Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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

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

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.