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

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

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

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...

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.