Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

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.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

They know enough who know how to learn.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.