Ben Carson on success

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

We don’t have to explain miracles; all we have to do is accept them.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.