To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

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

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.