Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.