Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.