Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

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…