Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.