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

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.