Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Only the educated are free.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.