Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

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

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

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

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.