In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.