Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
“Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.”
It was worth half-cent to kill a "nigger", and a half-cent to bury one.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Think where man's glory Most begins and ends And say my glory was That I had such friends.
People do not like to think. if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. conclusions are not always pleasant.
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
“failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success.”
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness.
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.