The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.