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

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

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.