I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

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