Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.