A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.