Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

I'm really scary in reality. Most of the time.