Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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

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

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.