Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

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

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

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.