Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.