Much learning does not teach understanding.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.