Oprah Winfrey on success

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

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.