Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.