Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

As in his public affairs, so in his private life the American rarely prepares himself for the future. He is wholly unwilling to have anything transmitted to hi…

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where rev…