A bad workman never gets a good tool.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.