It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.