Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.