Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.