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.

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

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

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

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist