You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

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

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.