In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.