When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

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

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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...

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.