Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.