One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

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

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.