The ancestor of every action is a thought.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

The greatest sin is to think of yourself as weak.
-- Swami Vivekananda

If you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Every man I meet is my superior in some way.
In that, I learn of him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you.
Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
-- General Obregon

God Himself does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.
Why should you and I?
-- Dr. Johnson

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
-- Carlyle