When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the