No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical