Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A room without books is a body without soul

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it