The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.