A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech