If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

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

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

People say law but they mean wealth.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.