Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.