Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.