Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

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

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.