We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.