When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

Everything is hard before it is easy.