To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

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

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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…

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.