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.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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

He whoangers you, conquers you.