Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

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,

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.