Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

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,

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Necessity truns lion into fox.