There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.