A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges