Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

... 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

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.