Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger She was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger and she won.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

He who survives will see the outcome.

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.