The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

The property of power is to protect.

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