A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.