If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.