Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

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…

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.