One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.