Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Malice drinketh its own poison.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Patience is the art of hoping.

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

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.