The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

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

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.