He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it