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

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

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

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.