Berkeley Innovation

He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. [Proverbs 18:9]
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
He who hesitates is probably right.
I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
The basis of effective government if public confidence.
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
It is not the position, but the disposition.
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them .
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.