Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

People, like water, seek their own level.