If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.