This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.