If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

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

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

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

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

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.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.