Silenceis the mother of truth.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.