If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.