If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.