Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!