Inspiration comes of working every day.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

What is well done is done soon enough.

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

Buying ischeaper than asking.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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 fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.