As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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…

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.