Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

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