We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Genius is a long impatience.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.