When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

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

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.