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

All thingsat first appear difficult.

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.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…