Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Only the educated are free.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.