Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

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

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.