Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.