Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.