Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.