Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Only the educated are free.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out