Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.