If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

When you start exercising choices, as against embracing opportunities, you become your own God, leaving precious little in the hands of Almighty!

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

The only way to reduce the number of nuclear weapons is to use them.