Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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...

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience