Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.