Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

The present is never a happy state to any being

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.