It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

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

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.