It is a good reader that makes a good book.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.