Modesty is the clothing of talent.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

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…

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.