Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.