Malicedrinketh its own poison.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.