I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.