True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Every advantage has its tax

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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