Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

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.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.