If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.