Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.