If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

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...

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.