Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.