Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.