Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.