There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.