Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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

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

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.