A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

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

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

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.