Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.