Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.