Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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…

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.