You made your bed, now lie in it.

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

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.