An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

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

A language is like living skin itself.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.