If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side