We must interpret a bad temper as the sign of an inferiority complex  – Alfred Adler

The price of greatness is responsibility – Winston Churchill

Knowledge is of two kinds.  We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.  – Samuel Johnson

“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.” – Lao Tzu

The traveler’s-eye view of men and women is not satisfying.  A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end.  To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.  –  Aldous Huxley

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they spring up.  Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated.  You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.  Lloyd George

Everyone desires long life, no one old age.  Jonathan Swift.

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.  Chinese proverb.

 The peony, though large, is useless; the date blossom, though small, yields fruit.  Chinese proverb.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.  Lin Yutang.

The right to be let alone is the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued in civilized man.  Louis D. Brandeis.

We trained hard — but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.  I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganization, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.  Petronius Aubiter.

The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities.  Thomas Macaulay.

He who forgives easily invites offense.  Pierre Corneille.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.  Nathaniel Emmons.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

I never got far until I stopped imagining I had to do everything myself.  Frank W. Woolworth.

Never be a pioneer.  It’s the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.  H. H. Munro.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.  Abraham Lincoln.

Never press a point too hard because a deep wound is hard to heal and usually leaves a scar.  Dale Carnegie.

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Beware of people with good intentions.  Theodore Roosevelt.