Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

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.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.