The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

God made time, but man made haste.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.