Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.