Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government