The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.