If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows read more

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood read more

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You read more

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning -- and some of them many times over -- what do you find? That you can swim? Well -- life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or read more

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.

Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.