If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares