The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

Luck never mad a mad man wise

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.