Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They