It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.