No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

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

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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