Miscellaneous Quotes

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

If you�ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.