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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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

As a final incentive before giving up a

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.