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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress.

You are at enmity with yourself.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?.

Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Hatred -- The anger of the weak.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.