When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.