There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

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.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.