Good Friday They say it was old sins that troubled him, the past failures of the man, that made things difficult for him now. There had been days when he had been too hectoring or domineering -- so, at least, these impossible people had said, though he himself denied it still. At all events, protesting to Rome, they had won the Emperor's ear, and humbled their governor. And that must not happen again. Ah, me! Is not this life of ours a fearsome thing? Take care! take care! for if you sin that sin, be sure that somehow you will pay for it -- and, it may be, at how hideous a price! So Pilate found in his day; so you, too, will find it in ours... Only God knows what may come out of that, if you should give way to it. Pilate was curt and domineering to the Jews one day. And it was because of that, months later, his unwilling hands set up the cross of Christ: unwilling -- but they did it. Take you care! for sin is very merciless. If you have had the sweet, [sin] will see to it that you quaff the bitter to the very dregs.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are-- Women and Horses and Power and War.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The boss is always right, even when he's wrong.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

midnight is where the day begins.

Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Even in the force and road of casualty. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication , ideas not derived from any systematic process , ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process , ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process , ideas which have already passed authentication processes , as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes .

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.

Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.