The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

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

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.