Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.