Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.