We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.