A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

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

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.