Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.