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

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

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…

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.