There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

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?

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.