We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.