Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

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

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.