A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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...

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.