One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…