Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.