Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Constant repetition carries conviction.