Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

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.

The comforter's head never aches.

... 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

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.