Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.