Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

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

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.