Stability is not immobility

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

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.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

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.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.