Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.