Some people suffer in silence louder than others

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.