If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

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...

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

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

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.