Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

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.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

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

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

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.