To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.