The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be. . . those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes. . . those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip.
There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.