Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

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

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

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

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.