Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to