If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.