To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

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

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.