I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

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.

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

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges