A room without books is a body without soul

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?