A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Stories are equipment for living.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

If you have faith in yourself you will never lick the dust of defeat in any ground

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

Being a positive person doesn't mean you never have negative thoughts. It just means you don't allow them space to take root and grow to control your life.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.

The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

I think every guy that's dated a girl or hasn't been straightaway into a relationship has had that 'so...' moment where a girl is like, 'Hey what are you doing?'

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.