Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

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.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Liberation is not deliverance.