Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Power comes from sincere service

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.