The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…