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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.