Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.