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

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

The present is never a happy state to any being

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Liberation is not deliverance.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.