Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.