Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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

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

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.