I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

... 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

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!