It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Liberation is not deliverance.

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

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

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

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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