A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important