Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Nevercut what you can untie.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...