If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

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

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.