Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.