No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

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

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.