"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing."

"We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

"I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back."

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

"It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research"