An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.