We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

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

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di