Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

God made time, but man made haste.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.