What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.