There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

The words you use can influence your life. Positive words are well spring of life.

It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

You don't want to see that happen on the pitch, it's only right to try and break it up.

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er.