Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.