None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.