Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

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.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.