Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

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

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.