Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

To beprepared is half the victory.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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…

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.