Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Details create the big picture.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.