I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out