Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

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.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.