No strength within, no respect without.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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

Ability is poor men's wealth

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.