Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Silenceis the mother of truth.