The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.