Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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