What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls. . . She's too precious to give up.
I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.