Our errors are steps on the way.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.