The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

As long as there is life there is danger.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.