Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

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.

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

No strength within, no respect without.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

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