Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.