Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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...

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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