Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.