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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.