The first duty of love is to listen.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.