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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.