Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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...

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.