Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.