I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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...

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.