Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.