The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.