Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Nogarden is without its weeds.