By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Silence is argument carried out by other means.