Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

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.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.