A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.