you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.