Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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...

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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

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.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.