You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.