The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

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…

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.