Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.