All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

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…

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.