The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

God has created the world in play.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou