Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

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

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.