The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.