Liberation is not deliverance.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.