"He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“A whale out of water is over-run by ants.”

“Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.”

“Without stepping out the door, you can know the world.”

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

“Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.”

“Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.”

“The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.”

“This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.”

“What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.”