Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.