Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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

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

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.