When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

To succeed in business, but the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

Self-interest feeds more people than self-sacrifice.

There is no help from without, only from within.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

Everybody lives an epic.

The decline and fall of civilization are barely noticed by most of its citizens.

Seeds that are sown in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

The struggle is the architect of the soul.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

People, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.