Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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