Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Those who trust us educate us.

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

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.