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

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.