Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.