Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

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,

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.