We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.