To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.