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

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

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

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

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

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.