If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

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

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.