You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.