Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.