The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.