Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

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...

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

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

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.