Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.