Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

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

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

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

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.