Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.