There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poole.

Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

God answers knee-mail.

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.