The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.