How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.