Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.