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

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

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.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.