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

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

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

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Liberation is not deliverance.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.