Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.