The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

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The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

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ur dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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