Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

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.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.