Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Ittakes time to save time.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.