I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

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

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.