If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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