“Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”

Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Stranger in a strange country.

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.

Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

What you can’t enforce, do not command.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

There is no success without hardship.

The good befriend themselves.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.