Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.