Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Constant repetition carries conviction.