Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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 deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

You can't unscramble an egg.