The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.