I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.