Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Liberation is not deliverance.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.