How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

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

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

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.