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

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

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…

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

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.