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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out