Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

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