Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Power tires only those who do not have it.