Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.