There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

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

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.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself