Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

God has created the world in play.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They