“I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.”
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.”
“I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.”
“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.”
“A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another."Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer?Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the verything that produces worry and fear and melancholia.”