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

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to