Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal