The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

The comforter's head never aches.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.