If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.