Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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

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.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.