What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.