There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Shear swine, all cry and no wool.

It is impossible to overestimate the immense need that humans have to be listened to, understood, and taken seriously.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Man is his own worst enemy.

The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels. You will be as proud of them as a bride is of her jewels."

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds. -Unknown.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. .

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, "We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.".

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.