When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.