Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

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

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Our distrust is very expensive.