Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

Suffering is never wasted. Most often those who suffer the most will learn the most.

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.

There's those who talk about it. And there's those who BE about it!

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.