Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

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

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.