Nogarden is without its weeds.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.