A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Nevercut what you can untie.

People say law but they mean wealth.

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

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.