A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

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…

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.