Muhammad Ali on success

I’m so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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.