The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.