If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.