Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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,

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Nothing is a permanent except change.