Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

... 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

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

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