If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The present is never a happy state to any being

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.