Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.