All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Everything on earth has happened before, nothing is new, but woe to the loverswho fail to discover a fresh blossomin every future kiss.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.

Wait around and wait around and pretty soon you won't be around

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.