The art of writing is the art of restraint.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Instead of focusing on big goals,focus on small goals.Small victories always lead to large ones.Swami Vivekanand..

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

... 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

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.