You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

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…

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.