Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

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

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

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.