Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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

Genius is a long impatience.

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