The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.