Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.