The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Those who trust us educate us.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.