Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

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

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The comforter's head never aches.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.