Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Maturity begins when we’re content to feel we’re right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you – out of love – takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
People who won’t help others in trouble “because they got into trouble through their own fault” would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we’re saying.
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
The beauty of ‘spacing’ children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones – which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.