Much learning does not teach understanding.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

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.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall 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.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.