Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

To beprepared is half the victory.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.