Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.