Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

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

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.