Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.