The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

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

Compromise.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.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.