The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Stability is not immobility

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.