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

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.