A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

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

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.