Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.