If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

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

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.