Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…