Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea