Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.