Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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.