Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Little things console us because little things afflict us.