The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

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.