The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.