Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

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

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.