The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

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

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

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.