Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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…

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.