There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough read more

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get read more

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for read more

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in read more

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of read more

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.