Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.