All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Habit: the shackles of the free

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

"Man wishes2fly like a bird,sing like cuckoo,dance like a peacock,swim like a fish,But Man dosnt wish2live like a man"

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking