Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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

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