There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it