If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

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

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.