Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him