Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

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

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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...

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.