The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

A language is like living skin itself.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought