Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

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

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.