Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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.

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