Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.