Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The way you love yourself is the way you teach others to love you.

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

Failure is simply a stepping stone on the path to success. Learn from it, grow, and keep moving forward.

A busy life is a wasted life.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

You don't have to be sick to get better.