The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

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,

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

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.