Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

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

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.