Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.