Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise read more

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in read more

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a
living. The other should teach us how read more

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a
living. The other should teach us how to live.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very
destructiveness on both friend and foe has read more

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very
destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means
of settling international disputes.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.