One cannot be precise and still be pure.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

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

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.