Optimists and pessimists

Optimists and pessimists
Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.
  

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.
Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.
Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.
In God we trust; all others pay cash.
Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.
Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.
It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.