There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.