The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

... 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

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.