Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Those who trust us educate us.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

People loan their trust, they don't give it.