The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Stability is not immobility