Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

People say law but they mean wealth.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains