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

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

You can't unscramble an egg.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

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

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.