Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Only the educated are free.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

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

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.