Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.