Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near 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.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.