Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

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

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

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

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