The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.