Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.