Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

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

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears