The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

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

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.