A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.