Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.