Trust exists; only lies are invented.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.