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.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...