Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Better hazard than always be in fear.