All thingsat first appear difficult.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Keep things 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

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.