Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Example is better than following it.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.