Middle Age Is That Perplexing Time Of

The Reason That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction Is That Fiction Has To Have A Rational Thread Running Through It In Order To Be Believable, Whereas Reality May Be Totally Irrational.

The Generality Of Mankind Is Lazy. What Distinguishes Men Of Genuine Achievement From The Rest Of Us Is Not So Much Their Intellectual Powers And Aptitudes As Their Curiosity, Their Energy, Their Fullest Use Of Their Potentialities. Nobody Really Knows How Smart Or Talented He Is Until He Finds The Incentives To Use Himself To The Fullest. God Has Given Us More Than We Know What To Do With.

Many Persons Of High Intelligence Have Notoriously Poor Judgement.

The Difference Between Patriotism And Nationalism Is That The Patriot Is Proud Of His Country For What It Does, And The Nationalist Is Proud Of His Country No Matter What It Does; The First Attitude Creates A Feeling Of Responsibility, But The Second A Feeling Of Blind Arrogance That Leads To War.

We Truly Possess Only What We Are Able To Renounce; Otherwise, We Are Simply Possessed By Our Possessions.