Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to