To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.