You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Thereare two sides to every question.

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

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.