Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.