The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

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

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

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.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.