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

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

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.

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

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.