I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.