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

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.