The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...