Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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…

They know enough who know how to learn.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

To beprepared is half the victory.

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

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.