Never answer a letter while you are angry.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

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.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.