Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

The property of power is to protect.

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

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.