Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

Eliminate all distractions and focus on things that add value to your life

We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

We don't laugh because we feel good; we feel good because we laugh.

Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.