A little learning is a dangerous thing, not because it is little, but because the learner believes it to be much.

The difference that you discover between yourself and others is the key that opens the door to personal excellence and success, because this door is one that others can not enter.

At some unidentified point in our development we make a decision that will determine how we grow for the rest of our lives; that decision is to either be a vine, that seeks its support and direction from others, or to become a tree that grows independently, and which, if others choose, to support the vines that will grow and climb that tree.

It seems to be our nature to not welcome contrary or contradictory opinions, any more than the earth welcomes the plow in the Spring.