Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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