Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

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

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

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.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.