When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.