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

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

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...

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.