Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.