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 possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.