Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.