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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

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

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.