People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.