If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

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.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

He understands badly who listens badly.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical