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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

I listen and give input only if somebody asks.

He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty.

Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

If you can't write your message in a sentence you can't say it in an hour.

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.

Next to entertaining or impressive talk a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.

When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.