Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.