If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.