Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it “ambivalence”: a collision between thought and feeling.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man’s bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

Tell a man something is bad, and he’s not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it’s the better part of caution to listen.

Good humor isn’t a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘By getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.

He who doesn’t consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won’t have to do it twice.

Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.