You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.