It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

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

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.