Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

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