Buying ischeaper than asking.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.