If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

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

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.