If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.