Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.