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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.