True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.