Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.