If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

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

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…