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.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

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

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

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.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.