Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

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

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.