People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.