Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

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

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.