National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.

Start seeing yourself as God sees you, see yourself through God’s eyes

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

Never wait for trouble.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.