Leo Tolstoy

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Kings are the slaves of history.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Love those you hate you.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

You have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.