An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.            *I abjure advice-giver.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Feed your faith and starve your doubts.

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.