The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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…

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.