Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

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

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.