Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

If youare 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.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

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.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!