Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.