The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

You can't unscramble an egg.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.