The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

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

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Think globally, act locally.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

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.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.