Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

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.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.