Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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

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

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.