You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

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

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...

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much