Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

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.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.