Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

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