Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.