The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

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