Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Every advantage has its tax

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.