Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever