Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

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

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.