If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.