A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

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