Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.