You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving